How does Chris Roberts sleep at night?

Every dollar makes a big impact :^)

>>386506847
IN THE HIGH SCHOOL HALLS

Probably next to his gold digger wife.

Are there any historians or scholars amongst us here to give me the lowfi on Star Citizen

Is it even a game at this point or something more like an idea that can only be appeased with money, the very last I heard of it there was Mark hamill and an FPS involved in a game about starships

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>>386506847

>>386506847
>How does Chris Roberts sleep at night?
probably on a pile of money with a bunch of hookers

>>386506895
Yep, adds about 30,000 hours to the development time.

>>386506847
Every story I've read about Roberts pretty much says that he doesn't give a flying fuck about anything anyone else thinks. He does his thing and fuck everyone else.
What I don't know is if it's some autistic assburger thing or just plain ol' Steve "I'm the God, fuck you" Jobs shtick.

>>386506847
In a giant $30,000 bed

>>386507012
The game is still in active development.

>>386507012

I only half pay attention to the project. To justify more money, they keep expanding the scoep of the project so now Star Citizen is attempting to be about 6 games in one.

>>386506847

>meet Honda fan who spent $30,000 of a car
>/v/: okay
>meet vidya fan who spent $30,000 on vidya
>/v/: BOO HISS WHAT A RETARD

I don't understand

I would imagine extremely well. Just imagine the thread count on his sheets.

>>386507342
>a real car vs some pixels on screen

I wish goons didn't post here.

Before I hung out with them I thought that maybe they were smart old-school internet guru types pretending to be retarded for "lols".

Then I realized, they are actually retarded, trying to appear smart.

>>386506847
someone post the sliding door webm

or a picture of the $15k espresso machine

or that ipod furniture

or those jet skis or whatever

Hiding in a cargo crate for 3 days till I get brought onboard my targets ship and hijacking it is my end goal still

>>386507342
you must be retarded or something

>>386507342
>spent $30,000 on vidya
He didn't spend it on vidya. He got no vidya in return for his money. All he got was a bunch of jpgs of ships that don't even have 3 models yet.

>>386507036
this gets funnier every time I read it

>>386506928
the fact that she did tickle porn makes it even better

>>386507012
its basically a cult at this point.

>>386507428
A 30k honda will never be worth more than 30k.

The ships at least have a chance of appreciating in value.

You are literally retarded children who have never owned a car before. Its the biggest fucking scam in the world.

>>386507342
>meet Honda fan who spent $30,000 of a car
>/v/: okay
nu-v would be like 'fucking weebshit'

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>>386507435

>Before I hung out with them I thought that maybe they were smart old-school internet guru types pretending to be retarded for "lols".

>>/reddit/

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>>386507036
>dreams happen now
>until the end of times

>>386506847
on a bed of fucking retard money

>>386507714
They look at people who aren't like them, and think they are stupid. They laugh among themselves and say things like "Get a SA account please, you're funny, we want to laugh at you", they call you retarded and mock.

Then if you hang around long enough you'll discover they are actually retarded.

I don't see what this has to do with reddit. Anyway have a great day.

>>386507714
what happened to goonswarm

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>People relinquishing large amounts of money to an unfinished and still in active development game?

Thats the power of harnessing retards

>>386508135
>whales spending $10K+
if star citizen ends up a scam then chris roberts may have to fear for his life

>>386506895
>Every dollar makes a big impact :^)

It does though. Without publisher overhead and inflated marketing costs, CIG's dollard go four times as far as they would with an EA subsidiary. That's according ro Roberts himself.

Which is why it's an even more hilarious failure. They just ticked $156 million in funding, which essentially means $624 million in purchasing power to produce a broken ~$25,000 Crysis mod.

>>386508682
I always thought the type of people who did this were like Saudi oil barons with more money than they could possibly spend, but then I heard about the people who took out second mortgages on their home to give Chris Roberts tens of thousands of dollars and I can't comprehend why anyone would do that.

>>386508682
>>386508135
it's not even that they're spending this money

the ships can be bought with in-game currency. you're essentially just paying to get the ships from the start rather than having to work for them.

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>>386506847
>How does Chris Roberts sleep at night?

You can actually tell that the pressure is getting to him in the latest AtV. He keeps frowning, sighing, stammering, and pulling faces as he makes excuses for why a patch he claimed was coming last December still isn't out yet.

The best part is that even if 3.0 delivered everything he originally promised it would, the game would still be a raging dumpster fire.

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>>386506847

JUST

Isn't RSI millions of dollars in debt right now?

>>386509565
enough FUD, derp shart

this is SLANDER

Grimoire came out. Nothing is impossible now

>>386507714
>SA
>Not proto reddit

>>386506847
Snuggled comfortably on a pile of cash.

even if the game gets released i won't be playing it. how much more obvious can it be that this game will have obscene p2w? when you're already selling top tier "ships" and then your director is talking about buying currency with real money you know it's fucked

>>386507342

>pay 30k for something concrete
>might have actual use and is gonna get money out of it when he sells it
>pay 30k for a virtual ship on unfinished game
>will probably never get to enjoy his purchase because he will die of shame in 2021, two years prior the release of Star Citizen

>>386508039
Casino mogul got ticked off at Goons for whatever reason and bankrolled half of nullsec to team up and evict them. Goons eventually got back together down in Delve and hang out with the rest of the Russians that weren't BTFO in the Winter War.

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THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM
Budget: $90 million USD
Development team: 80
Development time: 3 years

STAR CITIZEN
Budget: $160 million USD + unknown venture capital investors + bank loans
Development team: 268 + outsourcing for animations, voice acting
Development time: 5 years
State: 3+ years remaining until release

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>>386508039
They safely secured all assets and then blueballed a bunch of reddit alliances by moving out without a fight. They just gave away that space. That gif was probably made by q Redditor.

Then they moved to the south in a region called Delve, and now everyone in EVE is bitching about Goonswarm driving up inflation because they are making so much money.

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I eagerly await the day I see fat fuck Chris Roberts on an episode of American Greed being hauled to jail because of America's first ponzi scheme through a FUCKING VIDEO GAME.

Let's play hypotheticals for a moment. Let's say that SC releases (God knows when) and it's a great game and everything is peachy.

Surely one of the great joys of a game that Star Citizen wants to be is the progression from lowly nobody to epic space dude. That's what's driven Elite, Freelancer, Privateer, etc.

Not only are they spending bullshit amounts on essentially a promise but they are also skipping what should be one of the whole points of the game.

>>386510172
FIRST ponzi scheme? Are you high?

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Hey Star Citizen fans, can you do me a favor?

Take a look at these images of procedurally generated planets and tell me which one was made by:

1) the 268 employee company with $160 million US dollars of funding, over the course of four years

2) the 58 year old Russian astronomer, over the course of six months, in his free time away from his job

>>386506847
Why would he have problems sleeping?
He's the one who keeps others awake at night

>>386510316
>Reading comprehension

>First ponzi scheme "through a video game"

>>386506847
Probably on the $1.6m floating magnetic bed

>>386510228
Different people value different aspects of the game. Some people just want to fly around in a huge capital ship, rather than starting out as some noname fuck in a trainer spacecraft and working their way up to a self-sustaining space-travelling military base with hundreds of NPC crew members to pay.

I think you should have to work your way up, and that subverting this with money is pay2win, but not everyone will want to play the game the same way you or I do.

>>386507342
You fail at analogies

>>386510172
A ponzi scheme involves paying older investors off with new investor money

Crowdfunding doesn't make you an investor, no crowdfunder is being paid

>>386510127
Yeah I don't understand where all the money went on either of those 2 games too

>>386510340
The one on the left was meant to be able to land on and navigate, the one on the right was meant to look pretty and nothing more.

>>386510340
Russian programmers are the most powerful

>>386510127
SKYRIM:
TES4 + graphics improvements
size: a few km square

SC:
a full singleplayer capaign with a hundred hours content
a crysis-level graphics with millions of polygon models
size: countles trillions km3 of playable space + hundreds of planets

>>386510127
>A game way bigger in scope then this shitty single player rpg needs more time, manpower and therefore more money

whoooa.

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REMINDER THAT THE ORIGINAL KICKSTARTER GOAL WAS $500,000

>>386510732
You almost got me

>>386507285
I think what's worse is that they actually downgraded their planned universe size to accommodate the other shit modes no one cared about when it was just gonna be a space sim, even if their initial numbers for galaxies/planets were fucking stupid, it's like 10% of what was planned for the singleplayer campaign release which they said they "may" add more shit after release.
ah who am I getting this shit won't ever see a real release, and when they decide to give up and stop working on it and release as it it will be an empty joke

>>386510732
>+ hundreds of planets
>>he hasn't heard
I'm sorry, anon. There will be 1 planet with 3 moons.

>>386507012
It's a cult. There are real cults in the world where they give their kids to be raped by their leader so a cult where members give money away for some idea is not unheard of especially in mainstream media. Just hope that Chris Roberts only raped the wallet of his members and not their ass.

>>386507635
Your $30k ships have a pretty high chance of getting blown up by a 12 years old griefer.

>>386507635
>The ships at least have a chance of appreciating in value.
And your ship is just some space pixels in jpeg form.

MY philosophy with Star Citizen has been to wait and see. I have followed development here and there and catch a few ATV's now and then and there is some pretty impressive work being done and I do hope that it releases and is great but to put money in to something like this with changing scope and technology that they haven't even figured out yet is insane.

I'll happily pay the 45 dollars that Star Citizen is supposed to retail at once it's out and confirmed good but 30k on a fucking make believe ship without a game around it?

Wtf son.


I don't think SC is a major scam but I do believe that there is a very real possibility of more woeful mismanagement (you can really take at least 2 years off of dev time they have used before they even got their act together)

And it could spectacularly crash and burn as an unplayable buggy mess that can never bring all the tech required together in a seamless and FUN way.

It's a BIG ask.

>>386507485
IT WAS MY DESTINY TO BE HERE
IN THE BOX

>>386507012
It started as a $500k goal kickstarter. They got way more than that and claim to have decided that rather than just make a $500k game and pocket the other $2 million, they'd use that extra money to make the game bigger. Then they kept getting more money and kept adding more game, until they were neck deep in so much game that they don't know what to do. Then they started putting out "modules" that let you test drive basic mechanics in a miniature map, like flying or shooting, and decided "we've given them a game to play, let's start spending some of that money on ourselves". They bought a $15k espresso machine for the office, a $30k sliding door, Chris Roberts has also been personally buying shit like boats and jet skis.

Then the whales who donated tens of thousands of dollars started pulling their money out, so they added a clause to the ToS saying "NO REFUNDS". They even mark people who ask for or threaten refunds as problem starters in their internal support system. Now their roadmap only says the content they're aiming at for release is 1/10 of what they promised, and they've been at least a year behind schedule for the past 3 years.

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>>386510732
>>386510762

Maybe, just maybe, the scale is way too big for a game to realistic be made and maybe should be scaled down?

>>386511515
>They got way more than that
Why is it that almost every single kickstarter this happens to falls flat? The only success of this kind that comes to mind is Shovel Knight.

>>386510925
It is even worse than that. They promised those planets more than a year ago. Delay after delay after delay and then they announce that they will scale it back and even then there are delay after delay after delay.

>>386511937
>Shovel Knight
Because they used crowdfunding as a preorder(game was already in development before ks) not a "give me money to make me this dream game".

Hows this dude going to feel when star citizen never launches and is abandoned. knowing he spent $30k and got literally nothing?

>>386511746
They cant scale down after tricking millions of idiots into giving them millions of dollars.

>>Originally planned for a release in 2014, and again in 2016, there is as of 2017 no official release date, and the game is still in active development. Squadron 42 was originally announced for a late 2015 release, but was delayed. As of June 2017, the game's website lists 2017 for release.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Citizen

>>386507342
This might be the most retarded post I've ever read on this site

>>386511937
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcFFqGjz0_c

>>386512150

didnt they recently put the company and the game up as collateral for a bank loan?

>>386510432
This. When the guy goes broke eventually or dies, his estate auction is going to look like a fucking b-movie film musuem from all the shit he's had made for himself from the money.

All we need at this point is to catch him a scandal about inviting little kids to come nap in his sleeper cabin behind the pressurized airlock at the top of the chrome stairs.

>>386506847
All the way to the bank.

>>386512248
I hope so, and I hope they default so someone else gets all their progress and can actually create a game out of it since they clearly aren't able to.

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>>386506847

>>386507635
>A 30k honda will never be worth more than 30k.
Add a few simple mods, of course.
Also somebody hasn't seen the new Civic R going for insane prices because ricers.

>>386512571

> so someone else gets all their progress and can actually create a game out of it

this wouldnt be what happens though. cmon, think about what industry this is

>>386512571
>>386512248
They did that to exploit the low GBP to USD conversion rate. And I am not memeing. This is their explanation to why they did that.

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>>386507342
this is the dumbest comparison i've ever read. Not even fucking apples to oranges, by this point its full blown potato.

>>386511153
That's absolutely irrelevant. The point is what they're worth after your purchase.

>>386512668
>this wouldnt be what happens though
It's still more likely than RSI ever finishing the game. Whoever gets the Star Citizen name would have to cash in on it before it becomes completely worthless.

>>386512865
Fungible vs non-fungible.

>>386506916
IN THE SHOPPING MALLS

>>386508682
>if star citizen ends up a scam then chris roberts may have to fear for his life

Hahah, the fat mafia drowning him with diet coke or cheetos suffocation ?

>>386506847
on a pile of money, coke, and hookers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qmczTQG-9g

>>386512954
So like mushrooms?

>>386510807
Based alternate reality Laurence Fishburne is always based.

>>386511153
>that painting you're seeing is actually just some photons on your retina, haha you're so dumb

>>386512108
Ship has sailed, either sink with small bubbles or go out with a michael bay bang.

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>>386506847
OF SALESMEN!!

>>386513147
pssh... *teleports behind Chris Roberts*

>>386513301
The painting is a painting. If you bought it because it was a painting, you get a painting.

A small png of a ship's concept art is a 3d model playable in a video game. If you bought it to fly in a video game, you don't get to fly it in a video game.

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>>386513572
>A small png of a ship's concept art is a 3d model playable in a video game
isn't*
fuck

>>386507389
Underrated kek

>>386513572
>The painting is a painting

Wrong. What you see is just an illusion made by your brain, using information from your eyes. It's a controlled hallucination at best. Enjoy your shitty fake painting, lmao

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You could've bought a decent car for the price he paid for virtual pixels that don't even exist yet.

>>386513301
>literally buying the deed to the brooklyn bridge

>>386506847
>Future Murder/Suicide

>>386513714
The point is, I'm paying money to hang that photon reflector the photon reflector that holds my house up because I like the photons it reflects.

A Star Citizen whale doesn't buy that data because he likes the photons the data itself makes their monitor generate, he buys it because he wants the photons that Chris Roberts told him it would make their monitor generate in the future. The reality of this situation is that their money went into the photons the data currently generate and it's unlikely that the photons they were promised will ever be generated.

>>386508682
I remember that old crazy fuck priest that was asking for money since, through the bible, he learned the world was going to end at 2015. A guy sued him because the world didn't end.

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what did they mean by this

>>386514145

That's an expresso machine meant for a coffee shop. And a really nice one at that. It's meant for pumping out hundreds of expressos a day. You don't really need one for an office.

>>386506847
Easy, he's a piece of shit.

>>386514303
So the whole scheme was just a plan to buy a ridiculous coffee maker, and it went too far.

>>386514303
It's obvious that Roberts expects the studio to fail and bought the machine so he has a plan B when it does.

>>386514145
They didn't buy the coffee maker, they do demos at workplaces

>>386514593
Using star bucks to open a Starbucks. It's genius!

>>386514145
>>386514303

>>386514667 this. you faggots haven't let a kirby salesman clean your carpets for free? you don't have to buy anything, you just kick them out.

>>386507342
Nice try Christopher

>>386513571
I don't think they can teleport close with the crazy wife of his around. She's the mad defender.

>>386514880
Given the money we know they've wasted on other frivolous shit, falling for a salesman honestly doesn't surprise me.

Plus this isn't a free cleaning, this is a free espresso. Even if they didn't buy it, wasting on-the-clock development time so employees can learn how to use a machine that they don't intend on buying just to get a free round of espresso is just plain retarded.

>>386506847
On a huge pile of money.

>>386515249
an espresso made from a $14k machine! don't downplay it now. anyways not like the employees had to sit around while they set it up and tear it down. just hang out for ~15 minutes of some infomercial shill masturbating with his big industrial coffee cock.

>>386514303
I've seen our caffeinated swill dispenser AND the Keurig fail too many times to believe that.

on a 30,000 dollar pillow

>>386514145

I was a barista before, why would you pay so much money for a coffee machine? It literally just pours hot water and steam nothing else, the rest depends on the coffee and barista

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>>386516569
>i was a shit barista

>>386516569
do grits cook faster on your stove too?

>>386516569
it's diminishing returns.
If you buy a cheap coffee machine off ebay it will probably make pretty gritty but passable coffee.
If you buy an expensive coffee machine it will probably make very consistant nice coffee.
If you pay $10,000 for a coffee machine it will probably taste fine but you'll convince yourself it tastes far better because you paid so much.

The real benefits of those machines is pumping out hundreds and thousands of cups with consistency 8 hours or more per day.

>>386517036
Perhaps the laws of physics cease to exist on their stove. Maybe they're magic grits.

>>386513040
CONFORM OR BE CAST OUT

>>386517254
IN THE BASEMENT BARS

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PPPPFFFFFFFFFFFFFFHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>386516602
>>386517036

The three most important things when making coffee is the coffee itself, then the barista and finally the machine itself.

After a certain threshols of money where you asure the water temperature and spreading is gonna be costant (Mind you its not a hard thing) it becomes a literal scam unless you want quantity,speed or reduce mainteance ( things you only want on a coffee shop, not a fucking office, I assure you not even the 10% of people working there know how to use it properly, much less the steam thing)

These guys paid and overcharge around 8k you damn mongloids

>>386509926
>buying a honda made out of concrete

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>>386507036
You may be laughing now, but when Admiral Roberts opens the warpgate to our new world, we'll live forever, and you'll be stuck here playing call of duty 25 on your consoles.

>YFW you didn't fall for Scam Citizen

Can this be a stealth space thread as well? /v/ always has the best space threads.

whats this I hear about SC having the most cult like fandom in existance? any pics?

>>386518724

Why didnt you just started it with that post anon?

>>386508039
Pretty much an economic cartel like always. People talk big about the amount of space turf they control as if it means anything, but they pretty much have all the serious financial sperglords in the game and corner every market.

>>386506847
He'll escape to a country with no extradition.

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>>386506847

>>386517624
As someone who was hopeful for this game and nearly spent over a hundred bucks on a ship jpg 2-3 years ago, this is extremely disappointing and I'm glad I didn't buy in before it was ready.

>>386517624
One fucking planet. One god damn star system. I thought the whole appeal of this game was a huge universe? Why else would this even be fun? Are there going to be thousands of ships puttering between a planet and it's moon?

>>386521520
>I thought the whole appeal of this game was a huge universe
Do you really think they can do that with CryEngine 3?
The second they announced the engine i knew this will never live up to the hype. That was like 5 or 6 years ago

>>386521520

That's for Alpha 3.0, not the complete game.

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>>386510127
Money cannot buy you talent. You can use it to hire people with talent, sure, but you need talent at the top to steer the ship straight.

Look at Food Fight. It had a budget of $45 million, but it was directed by an idiot and ended up as a dumpster fire. The opposite is also true: A good team with talented leadership can create good products with "impossible" budgets.

>>386521753
You mean 3.0-lite

>>386521753
When is the game supposed to actually come out?

A fool and his money are easily parted

>>386506847
On a bed of money, cocaine and hookers.

>>386521832
>Look at Food Fight. It had a budget of $45 million, but it was directed by an idiot and ended up as a dumpster fire.

You don't know the backstory to the movie? The entire actual movie was lost. They then quickly remade it for as cheap as possible. What you're seeing is some quick rushjob to fill contractual obligations.

>>386521998

No word on an actual release date. I'm sure my great grand-children will enjoy it.

>>386522071
>The entire actual movie was lost. They then quickly remade it for as cheap as possible.
That's true, but this is what the original version looked like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81uIhu8qrrs

Somewhat better animation, but it still looks horrible.

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>>386508135
>gif very related

>>386510417
it's not the first, anon
the first one that resulted in settlements and jail time happened two decades ago

>>386507342
you don't understand something.
I imagine that happens a lot with retarded people.

>>386522329
haha 1-dimensional thinking

What I find absurd is that they still havent released Squadron 42. Thats a single player game.

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>yfw you didn't fall for Scam Citizen

>>386506847
i love memeing about this shitshow but i feel like they've done so much work at this point that the game will eventually be released. it looks pretty cool desu.

>>386506847
In a coffin.

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>>386523671

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>>386523671
I didn't fall for it, but I wish the game they've been teasing all these years really did exist.

>>386511746
who is this cum plum

>>386524054
>I didn't fall for it, but I wish the game they've been teasing all these years really did exist.

It will. If you just donate another 10,000.

>>386507036
where's the part where he actually destroys the space sim genre by stealthily implementing a pay per ship design?

don't worry guys it's too big to fail

>>386524294
Then it deserves to die, despite how much I may wish it didn't.

@386507342
Such a low quality bait. No (you) for you.

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>tfw i gave no money to scam citizen

>>386506847
How did this game get funded such an extreme amount of money to begin with? I might be projecting since I only found out about the game like 6 months ago, but it doesn't exactly seem mainstream. Is it a small group pledging a lot of money?

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>>386524487
>@386507342

>>386524787

Picture the type of kid who played Space Sims in the 90's. Nerdy kid, decent parents, nice PC. That kid grew up, got an engineering degree. He's making good money. He's nostalgic for the space sims of his youth. His hero Chris Roberts comes along, asking for money. They donate. They donate a lot and often. Now they're in Cost Sunk Fallacy mode, and keep spending more to ensure that the project continues.

>>386512865
>The point is what they're worth after your purchase.
That's about the most jewish way of looking at things I've ever seen
They're worth what you use them for

>>386525047
Picture the type of kid who played Space Sims in the 90's. Lonely kid, average parents, Old PC that can only play old PC games. That kid grew up, have a depressing life. He's making no money. He's nostalgic for when life was simpler. His hero Chris Roberts comes along, asking for money. They donate. They donate a lot and often. Now they're in Cost Sunk Fallacy mode, and keep spending more to ensure that the project continues.

This is not just for people with money to spare. Everyone and anyone can be affected. I think everyone here knows someone that bought an Iphone even though they are barely getting by or bought a gaming pc even though they can't afford it.

The search for happiness can consume even the most rational person.